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Re: patch to clean up generic signum.h
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: patch to clean up generic signum.h
- From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:27:05 -0500
- Cc: drepper@cygnus.com, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- Emacs: because you deserve a brk today.
I think it is not "compulsive" but broken to omit signal numbers under
_POSIX_SOURCE. A POSIX.1-compliant program must define _POSIX_SOURCE,
and a well-written one would handle common non-POSIX signals by checking
for them with #ifdef.